House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan spoke with The Washington Times’ Alex Swoyer about judges handling President Trump’s executive orders, immigration, crime and lawfare.
[SWOYER] Welcome to the Washington Times interview with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, the man who oversees House impeachment proceedings and has been at the forefront of questions over government censorship and immigration policy.Â
We’ve tried to tally the number of lawsuits facing this administration, which I think we got to 500-plus, it’s kind of a record. And I wanted to ask you how you think lower court judges, district court judges, are doing handling these lawsuits involving the president’s executive orders?Â
[JORDAN] Actually, we see some of the cases where we don’t like the decision from some of these courts and some of the judges, particularly when the issue like an injunction that applies nationwide. We’ve actually had legislation pass through the committee, pass through the House, which says, when you have, I think, there are 600 and some of these federal district judges, if they issue an injunction, it shouldn’t apply nationwide. It should simply apply to the parties in the case in that respective jurisdiction. So we see some of those, but President Trump’s actually won a lot of these cases, too, when they go up in their appeal.
[SWOYER] When they go up, that’s right.Â
[JORDAN] He’s got a pretty good track record, but I think the biggest takeaway is, this is the left. The left is always out to stop the president and stop the will of the people, through the guy they elected president, President Trump. The left is out to stop him every and any way they can.
[SWOYER] Do you think the courts are the left’s new political battleground?
[JORDAN] I think it’s everywhere. I think you see it with these mayors and governors, and in blue states and what they’re doing with sanctuary cities, sanctuary jurisdictions. You saw it with the judge in Milwaukee. A few months ago, the good guys were coming in the front door to arrest the bad guy, and the judge let the bad guy out the back door. So you see it all over. I always say the left’s the left, and they’re out to get President Trump. They’re out to stymie and undermine his administration, and they’ve been doing that for a decade.Â
[SWOYER] There’s been some accusations from Trump supporters that they see Judge Boasberg as undermining President Trump’s calls with turning the plane around. I think it was Judge Young who wrote in an opinion, something about we, the country, needs to “stand up to Trump.” I know, not something you typically hear a judge write in an opinion.Â
[JORDAN] That’s probably maybe a violation of the ethics. I mean, I don’t know, but it’s certainly something you shouldn’t hear.Â
[SWOYER] People were kind of shocked about Judge Boardman with the eight-year sentence for Nicholas, or Sophie Roske now I guess, the attempted Kavanaugh assassin. So at any point should any of these judges face impeachment? I think Senator Cruz was the one that brought that up with the eight-year sentence.Â
[JORDAN] We’ve said all along, everything’s on the table. We think the best way to address this is to use all possible avenues to, one, do oversight, get the facts out there, have hearings. We had, back in the start of this Congress, early in this Congress, we had former Speaker Gingrich come in and talk about this injunction issue. Then we passed legislation. We went and spoke to the judicial conference, which there’s an annual thing, going in front of the judicial conference. I went and talked there a few weeks ago. And if we need to resort to other ways, all that’s on the table.Â
The history of our great country has been that you don’t impeach judges for stupid decisions or bad decisions. What common sense would say is a poor decision, you have the appellate process for that, and as we said earlier, President Trump’s done pretty well as they appeal some of these decisions from the lower federal district judges. But I don’t think you should rule out impeachment. I just think you use every avenue you can. And then if you have to go to impeachment, that’s something that should be on the table.Â
[SWOYER] You’ve been at the forefront of investigating corruption within the Biden DOJ, Biden FBI. It was just released recently about the spying on the phones of, I think it was like eight senators, Republican senators and House lawmakers. Do you have anything with your committee planned to do something with this?
[JORDAN] We want to dig into this, too.Â
[SWOYER] Would that involve calling Jack Smith to testify?Â
[JORDAN] Everything’s on the table.Â
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